Abortion Talk

So. Here we are. About this. Here’s some bare facts for you.

Abortions have happened since time immemorial, and NO amount of legislation will stop it. There will ALWAYS be women who are determined and desperate enough to go to *any* lengths to end an unwanted pregnancy. All anti-abortion laws accomplish is the probable death of said desperate women AND their unborn baby. Legalized abortion - done humanely (which, certain methods - forced into being by pro-lifers - are anything but) more or less ensures the mother’s survival, barring unexpected complications.

Even if the above wasn’t true - this is. No woman, anywhere, should be required BY LAW to continue a pregnancy they don’t want.

Their body. Their choice. It doesn’t matter how or why they got pregnant. If they don’t want to be, then they should be able to opt out without being treated like a criminal or worse by everyone around them.

But, just for a moment, let’s pretend I’m okay with ‘loose women’ having to carry their kid to term (hint: I’m not)

The first person to tell me, to my face, that a rape survivor should have to carry their rapists’ child to term is going to be picking their teeth out of their own shit when I’m done with them.

Ditto assholes who think that women should have to carry non-viable babies to term. (meaning babies who either die in utero or will be born with some problem that guarantees the kid will die shortly after birth, or be born physically alive but with little or no brain activity, things of that nature).

Both of those are heinous, horrifying situations. The decision of what to do in those circumstances would be difficult enough without John Q. Selfrighteous Citizen getting all up in it.